A CONTEMPTIBLE ACTION.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VII, Issue 330, 29 November 1917, Page 3

A CONTEMPTIBLE ACTION.

INSULTING OUR MEN. It is difficult, says the Auckland “Star,” to believe that there are people in New Zealand who would lay themselves out to deliberately insult the men who are serving in Palestine, yet there are, apparently, people in our midst, whether of the “white feather brigade” persuasion or not is not known, who will go out of their way to heap insult on the men who of late have been doing such excellent work iu Palestine. A resident of Auckland is in receipt of a letter from her son, who is with the mounted men, and who has recently been awarded the Military Medal, in which he states that one of his mates who received a parcel from New Zealand, on opening it, discovered inside a note expressing the hope that this particular parcel would not fall into the hands of one of the cold-footed mounted-men. Another incident is also mentioned of a member of the Australian Light Horse, who was lying in the hospital wounded in eight places from shrapnel. This man also received a parcel from New Zealand, and in it was a note, the contents of which were similar to that already mentioned. The feelings of the men at the front who are fighting for their country, and for the protection of cowardly people who send notes of this kind can better be imagined than described. Unfortunately this particular type of person is very careful not to send his or her name, and the task of tracing them becomes very difficult. The troops who have fought their way, under torrid climatic conditions, across the desert of Sinai and into Palestine, have had as arduous a time and done as much hard fighting as on any front in this war.